The Tote Decision The Government has announced its expected decision
regarding tote clubs, and totalisators on greyhound race- courses. The law, as interpreted by recent legal decisions, is to take its course. That means that the tote club will disappear altogether, and if any expedient for circumventing the existing law should be devised new legislation that cannot he circumvented will be passed. Greyhound-course totalisators also stand banned by the law, and banned they are to remain pending the final report of the Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting. That will no doubt raise the question of bookmakers on the courses also, and the two problems can be con- sidered together. There is little prospect that greyhound totes will be legalized, but the one-law-for-the-rich-and- another-for-the-poor argument is making an impression, whether it is logical or not. It would be much better to ban both the horse-tote and the dog-tote than to ban neither, and to ban both might well be the best way.
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